Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 46 04 Jul 2025, 07:04

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 155 1 1 0 0 157 20 1 21 48:35.810 Failed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:2.887
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:5.867
And I update APT using apt 26.560
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.187
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.029
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.181
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 39.754
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.528
And persistence is disabled 0.315
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:1.996
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.038
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.695
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.827
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.996
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.027
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.430
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:10.969
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.851
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
58.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 10.339
And the system is very low on memory 3.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.583
When I try to create a persistent partition 20.314
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.203
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.818
And I free up some memory 3.353
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.985
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:48.307
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.522
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.502
And all tps features are active 2.200
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.922
When I disable the first tps feature 4.425
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.144
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:6.713
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
18.918
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.634
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.115
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.278
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.116
When I disable the first tps feature 4.365
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 3.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.199
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.157
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.120
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I disable the first tps feature 4.520
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.252
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.236
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.205
And the network is plugged 0.147
And Tor is ready 20.394
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.638
When I write some files expected to persist 1.582
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.741
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 25.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:23.478
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.050
And the network is plugged 0.095
And Tor is ready 18.150
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.184
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.302
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:10.518
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 32.055
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.656
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.229
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
1:8.118
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.125
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.149
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 34.931
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:21.140
Scenario Persistent Greeter options
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.196
When I enable persistence 41.890
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.188
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 44.414
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.073
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.260
When I cold reboot the computer 10.249
And the computer reboots Tails 1:50.146
Given I enable persistence 21.826
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.729
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 16.164
The 
The Dogtail init script raised: SearchError: descendant of [application | Welcome to Tails!]: child with name='Start Tails' roleName='button'
STDOUT:

STDERR:

 (Dogtail::Failure)
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:93:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:339:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:268:in `call_tree_api_method'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:276:in `child'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:516:in `/^I log in to a new session(?: in ([^ ]*) \(([^ ]*)\))?( without activating the Persistent Storage)?( after having activated the Persistent Storage| expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated)?$/'
features/persistence.feature:113:in `When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage'
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.242 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Persistent Greeter options' (at time 05:38:21)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/46/artifact/build-artifacts/05:38:21_Persistent_Greeter_options.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/46/artifact/build-artifacts/05:38:21_Persistent_Greeter_options.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/46/artifact/build-artifacts/05:38:21_Persistent_Greeter_options.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/46/artifact/build-artifacts/05:38:21_Persistent_Greeter_options.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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4:28.287
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.840
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 37.320
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.949
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:57.715
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:18.445
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.370
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 38.358
Then persistence is disabled 0.492
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.729
And all notifications have disappeared 19.336
When I delete the persistent partition 4.581
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:17.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.683
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.291
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.963
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:54.480
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:46.108
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.414
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 0.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 37.985
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.465
And all notifications have disappeared 13.563
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.985
And all tps features are enabled 3.183
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:1.199
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:43.614
And I enable persistence 36.194
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.866
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.379
And persistence is enabled 3.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.758
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.103
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.821
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.219
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.330
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.180
When I enable persistence 33.805
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.100
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.390
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.004
When I try to enable persistence 2.340
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.643
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.268
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.473
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.310
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:15.275
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.040
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.845
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.161
When I try to enable persistence 0.321
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 35.716
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I log in to a new session 40.796
And all notifications have disappeared 31.203
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 5.995
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 2.444
When I close the "whisperback" window 5.300
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.896
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:27.538
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.346
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.244
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.587
When I try to enable persistence 2.102
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 28.739
When I log in to a new session 51.658
And all notifications have disappeared 41.922
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.740
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000